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happens then severe liability is incurred. Therefore do not begin this sexual link with anyone.
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Are you overcome by sleep that veils your awareness of the Self? The world will latch on to you if you dose off in such sleep. Now, from here on if you dose off, get attracted and tempted sexually with certain person, you have to ask for energy of brahmacharya from the pure Soul of that person, by saying, 'O pure Soul! Give me the strength to maintain my brahmacharya with the entire world'. It is good if you ask for strength from 'Dada' but it is best to ask directly from the pure Soul of the person who is pulling you.
Questioner: What should we do if the eyes meet
sexually?
Dadashri : Become clean and pure with the help of pratikraman. You must do pratikraman as soon as sexuality arises through the meeting of the eyes. That is why it has been said not to place a photograph or a statue of a beautiful woman.
Questioner: It is believed that sex is the sweetest of all. On what grounds is this based?
Dadashri : The reason why one feels the sweetness in sex is because one has not experienced sweetness anywhere else. If we really look at it, there is most filth in sexuality than anywhere else. But this momentary sweetness and pleasure renders one unconscious even while awake.
Questioner: I do not like it at all and yet the attraction remains. I continue to experience remorse about it.
Dadashri : If there is remorse, then it will go away. How can sexuality remain if you see only the Soul of the person? Sex occurs when you see anything else except the Self. Do you
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know how to analyze sexuality?
Questioner: You tell me, Dada.
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Dadashri : Analyzing the sexual event means, do the eyes like it? Do the ears like it when they hear it? And does it taste sweet if the tongue licks it? None of the senses like it. The ears must really like it right? Therefore when you analyze this way you will realize that hell exists there. But without this analysis people are confused. Isn't it a wonder that the world is so enamored with sex?
'By conquering sex, you have conquered the worldly life, Just as by conquering the King you have conquered the army, kingdom and power.'
- Shrimad Rajchandra
You will get everything, the army, the city and the power when you conquer the King.
Questioner: After acquiring Gnan from you, can we completely get rid of the seeds of sex right away in this life?
Dadashri : Everything can be done. No new seeds are sowed for the next life. Wash away the old seeds that already exist, and new seeds will not be sown.
Questioner: Does that mean that we will not have any thoughts of sex, in the next life?
Dadashri : No, you will not. If a few were left from the past then those thoughts will come but they would be of no consequence. There is no danger where there are no pending
accounts.
Questioner: Whom can you call a shilvaan person?
